Poem-a-Day
Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
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Taylor Byas: "Love Poem Attempt 3/?"
3 min
1127
Sterling A. Brown: "Challenge"
2 min
1128
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "The Venus of Milo"
3 min
1129
Joy Priest: "When I See the Stars in the Night ...
3 min
1130
Willie Lee Kinard III: "Aubade: Nocturne"
5 min
1131
Ariana Benson: "Love Poem in the Black Field"
3 min
1132
Arlene Keizer: "Canopy"
2 min
1133
Nkosi Nkululeko: "Continental Breakfast"
3 min
1134
Claude McKay: "When Dawn Comes to the City"
5 min
1135
Anne Spencer: "Substitution"
3 min
1136
Imani Davis: "Kink"
3 min
1137
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "Brown Estate, 2018 T...
3 min
1138
Evie Shockley: "black love"
2 min
1139
Guest Editor Interview: February 2023 Guest Edi...
13 min
1140
Dorothea Lasky: "This Beautiful Planet"
3 min
1141
Ra Malika Imhotep: "an armistice between my dea...
4 min
1142
Max Eastman: "X Rays"
4 min
1143
Alice Corbin Henderson: "From the Stone Age"
4 min
1144
Camonghne Felix: "Dearly Departed, Again I Drea...
3 min
1145
Chloe Honum: "Devonport"
2 min
1146
Corrie Lynn White: "After Striving"
2 min
1147
Destiny Hemphill: "our own names"
3 min
1148
Diana Marie Delgado: "People to Run From"
3 min
1149
Alfred Kreymborg: "Dance"
2 min
1150
Elizabeth Bishop: "Behind Stowe"
3 min